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The most seemingly normal lives are regularly riddled with the most adventurous moments. In this collection of short stories, scoops of imagination and a smattering of trivia smoothen into tales of ordinary people in different places in their lives, and like the acts of a play, unfolds the drama of real life. *** 'Tanuja Mullick's stories are deceptively simple. Beneath that surface limpidity and the telling phrase lie those human truths that make reading worthwhile.' - Upamanyu Chatterjee
Charlie Ashanti – lion-rescuer, shipwreck-survivor and Catspeaker – is safe with his parents. Or is he? Old enemies are closing in: Maccomo, the liontrainer, longs for revenge, and the evil Corporacy is still hunting Charlie and his mum and dad. They could hide. But the time to hide is over. Now is the time to fight back . . . Brilliantly written, fantastically exciting adventure fiction with a twist – boys and girls aged 9+ will love it! Lionboy was the first ever selection by the Blue Peter Book Club.
On the Wancho people of Tirap District of Arunachal Pradesh, India.
This volume presents an edition and translation of I.B. Thomas's pioneering work, "The Life-Story of Me, Segilola", first published as a series of realistic letters to a local Lagos newspaper in 1929-30, but now acclaimed as the first Yoruba novel.
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Volume 2 of 7. The Coptic Version of the New Testament in the Southern Dialect otherwise called Sahidic and Thebaic with Critical Apparatus, Literal English Translation, Register of Fragments and Estimate of the Version. Volume II includes the Gospel of S. Luke. Reproduction of the 1911 edition.
Nu de leeuwen eindelijk thuis zijn en Charlie in Afrika herenigd wordt met zijn ouders, begint hij te geloven dat zijn avonturen wel eens voorbij zouden kunnen zijn. Helaas is de ontmoeting met zijn ouders maar van korte duur. Charlie wordt gekidnapt en vastgeboden op een boot op weg naar de Cariben, waar hij met zijn vijand Rafi Sadler verkocht zal worden aan de Corporatie! Charlie zet alles op alles om dit te voorkomen en hij krijgt daarbij hulp uit onverwachte hoek. Zijn einddoel, het vernietigen van de gehele Corporatie en alles waar die voor staat, lijkt niet ver meer.